/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

right, but then you have people saying what deadmau5 does is "dubstep" when that's the only term people use on TV

Do I think his old stuff is dubstep? No.Do I think his new stuff is dubstep? Some.

He's definitely not a nobody, but he's been collaborating with dubstep artists, and playing a lot of it in his mixes, and I think it's watered down his original electro-house style that originally made him stand out. There are a couple good tracks from 12 that are true to his form, but a lot of his stuff is schlock these days, imho.

DeltaPunch:WaltzingMathilda: do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

Do I think his old stuff is dubstep? No.Do I think his new stuff is dubstep? Some.

He's definitely not a nobody, but he's been collaborating with dubstep artists, and playing a lot of it in his mixes, and I think it's watered down his original electro-house style that originally made him stand out. There are a couple good tracks from 12 that are true to his form, but a lot of his stuff is schlock these days, imho.

i don't think making a dub song is really a change of his genre, but i guess it's fair to point out. and, jesus, it's really bad so i hope he doesn't try to master it. holy f*ck he's bad at it. and a 4-minute lead in? jesus.

that said i don't think it'll ruin his career. he has an unbelievable number of fans, so as long as his light show continues to melt faces, he can lean on moar ghosts for as long as EDM fans live.

truthfully, i don't get off much from him anymore because he leans on moar ghosts way too much and he also complains all the time on twitter (i should have never followed him, the person is not as cool as the producer)

WaltzingMathilda:truthfully, i don't get off much from him anymore because he leans on moar ghosts way too much and he also complains all the time on twitter (i should have never followed him, the person is not as cool as the producer)

I've seen some videos where he's at home making music, and he comes across as an asshole. I dunno, maybe he's not...

Counter_Intelligent:Speaking of cold, featureless music, can anyone recommend any retro-futuristic electronica like the stuff from the Mass Effect 1 soundtrack? I've really been wanting to find more.

/ No dance music.

it's not exactly what you're looking for but i would try some "down-tempo" artists like kid loco or trance artists or something. i mean, i just listened to the mass effect theme from mass effect 1 and i would say that could be dance music.

anyway, try starting a kid loco pandora station or finding some other way of sampling a lot of down-tempo or trance artists. it's my favorite kind of EDM.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

If you have to explain so hard what the music is, it probably isn't worth listening to.

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?

well, techno is considered a genre within EDM. techno is not meant to be a generalized term synonymous with EDM.

square, rectangle, rectangle not square, all that

i'm not really interested in getting into the whole org chart of it, i'm just speaking of mainstream terms used to describe popular musical movements.

If you have to explain so hard what the music is, it probably isn't worth listening to.

do you believe that? what kind of music do you listen to? i bet it has a lot of subgenres.

i would venture to make the opposite claim, that if you don't care to understand that broader genres of music have many distinct subgenres worth discussing, then you don't really care much about music beyond a superficial "i knows what i likes" level

/should've taken a hiatus before jumping on the dubstep wagon//you had your own little corner in the electro-house genre///then you became a dubstep nobody

2 questions:

do you really think what he does is characterized as dubstep?

do you really think he is currently a "nobody" in the EDM world?

really? (ok 3 questions)

i don't understand the push to call the genre "EDM." when it was "techno" in the 90s it was criticized for being cold and sterile. so the answer was to rebrand it as an acronym that reminds people of some sort of clinical diagnosis?